On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 05:55 , Kenneth Whistler wrote: >>Nope. In some historical sense all natural languages are equally old >>(except those originating in creoles).
Um, we actually can date some languages, like French, for which we have the first documents written in it. But if linguistic change can be thought to be tidal.... -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
